Minnesota Golden Gophers

The Big Ten took center stage at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place hotel Thursday and Friday for its football preview extravaganza. But it was at another Chicago hotel 120 years ago that the powerful athletic conference first took shape. On Jan. 11, 1895, representatives from seven Midwest colleges met at the Palmer House for the first time to develop principles to regulate collegiate sports. "At that meeting," according to the Big Ten, "a blueprint for the administration of college athletics under the direction of appointed faculty representatives was outlined." The first move was to restrict eligibility to "bona fide, full-time students who were not...

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